I’ve already posted some shots from my visit to Venice. I can’t help but come back to these shots. I love walking in the streets at night.
Here’s one image that at first I didn’t like that much: 40 seconds exposure, first developed in Rawtherapee starting from neutral profile, with just an auto-matched curve to make it look close to the out-of-camera jpeg:
But after playing with some HaldCLUTs, I got something different: a personal “cinematic” HaldCLUT applied (I don’t remember exactly, but I think I made this CLUT from a cinematic look proposed by someone for Darktable, which I turned to a HaldCLUT), helped with an XPan crop:
I tend to agree with you, and I would not use this kind of color grading as most of the time I find it ugly for my photographs. However, for this one (and a couple more from this set), I personally like it a lot. But in fact, teal and orange and close colors can be found all over Venice:
Importantly, the crop got rid of that big shiny distracting slab in the foreground. The color shift helped put some emphasis on the boat on the left. Nice job!
